… Who Have it Sooooo Wrong Once More

Almost funny if it was not so serious for childrens’ health and safety worldwide. The usual same sad characters who are happy for mercury to be pumped into infants [neuro-toxic in parts per billion] crow over the junk science published in Pediatrics journal yesterday.

But the difference today is it is easy to show they are all uniformly wrong.

We name and shame the same “armchair web experts” and their instant science free analyses of “the government funded” study they proclaim is the last word in the issue of vaccines causing autistic conditions and brain damage in infants.

But today’s example shows these desperate bloggers as incapable of independent analytical or scientific thought [whether by choice or intellectual deficit we cannot say].

It is known and documented autistic childrens’ brains and other organs retain mercury when other childrens’ bodies do not. The authors of this Pediatrics study carefully measured what went into all the children but not what did or did not come out of the non autistic compared to autistic. So we cannot tell how much mercury the autistic children accumulated in their brains compared to the non autistic children. End result – another piece of hyped junk science that neither adds to nor takes away anything from what is already known.

[…] Those who have been involved in the vaccine wars as long as I have will immediately recognize this as the Legend of the “Poor Excretors.” There is, of course, no evidence for the concept that children with autism and ASD have any more difficult excreting mercury than anyone else. It’s not for nothing that this canard has been referred to as the myth of the “poor excretor.” Of course, that hasn’t stopped the pseudoscientists from trying again and again to show that there is somehow a huge difference between autistic children and neurotypical children in how they handle mercury. As far as science has been able to tell, there isn’t. Given that there is no good scientific justification to match controls with cases on the basis of mercury excretion, Price et al didn’t do it. Besides, to match children on such a basis would require that all the cases and controls had been tested for various measures of mercury excretion. Given that such tests are relegated to the realm of DAN! doctors and their pseudoscience, it would be highly unlikely that such data would be available anyway. This is, after all, a retrospective study. I am, however, honored that childhealthsafety would decide to name me in his other attack on the study. […]